Although Ms. Mystery doesn't care about mages obtaining her holy power and conducting research, she almost never responds to any mages' inquiries.
Albock didn't think he could make such outstanding magical achievements that the mysterious lady would look at him differently and communicate with him. It would be fine to think about this kind of thing in a dream, but it would be too naive to take it seriously when he wakes up.
Therefore, Ai Boke was just a little reserved before agreeing to Sha Duo's invitation. After confirming his next destination, Ai Boke acted even more eagerly than Sha Duo himself.
"When do we start? I also have some records here of my past research on divine arts. Do you want to read them?"
"No rush, let's fully understand each other's research progress first, and then we can decide what to do next. What do you think?"
"fair enough."
After what Sha Duo said, Ai Bok calmed down quickly. He turned around to find his research records, while Sha Duo cast a spell on the spot to transcribe his previous research process on the power of order.
After a while, Ai Burke returned to the reception room, and the two exchanged research notes. Xia Duo's only had two not-so-thick records, but Ai Burke's had more, a full stack, which was almost ten of Xia Duo's. times.
"Then I'll go back first. I may have to see Niya later. You know my laboratory. After you read my notes, go over there and wait for me. You can use the equipment in the laboratory first. You can do whatever you want."
After saying that, Shaduo granted Aiboike a secondary authority for the third-level laboratory, and then left with the other party's notes.
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Tower of Time, study room on the top floor.
Xia Duo sat in front of the projection window, checking Aibok's research notes while waiting for Niya to come over. It was obviously not enough to read through so many notes manually.
[Scholar's Touch] This auxiliary spell obtained from the Seven Towers is very suitable for this situation. When the princess came to inspect the southern border, she performed in front of him what it means to read a book in an instant.
At that time, Xia Duo was very coveted for such a method, but at that time he was not qualified to bargain with the princess. Later, his relationship with the Seven Pagodas has always been aloof.
He even had conflicts with the controller of the Giles Tower who was most likely to preserve this spell, not to mention this matter. It was not until the New Sevington Covenant was signed that his relationship with the Seven Towers took a further step, and he left Badigal. Got this spell there.
With the completion of the spell, Shado had indeed read through Ai Boke's research notes in an instant, not just one, but all of them. If it were an ordinary person, even with the help of spells, he could only achieve the effect of rough reading.
But Xia Duo has a bloodline power that allows him to trace back his memories, which is equivalent to memorizing them all. It's just that he can't understand them as clearly as the knowledge he truly understands. It involves some details, and he still needs to recall them occasionally.
But even so, this cursory reading gave him a more comprehensive understanding of Aiboike's research.
Holy power is undoubtedly a magical power. The holy power perceived by Aibo comes from the mysterious lady. In Shado's opinion, holy power may also be a kind of primitive power, or at least have some characteristics of primitive power.
For example, the power of order, such as the power of specific elements, are real, even naturally existing in nature, and may have various special effects without processing. This is primitive power.
The priest obtains the holy power through perception, which seems to be a kind of power that has been processed by the main god from the gods. However, through studying Aibok's research records, the holy power has many characteristics of original power.
So is it possible to make such a conjecture - the holy power may just be a power naturally revealed by the gods, and is not a specially processed power, just like the heat naturally emitted by the human body.
However, Aiboke's notes also mentioned that the holy power perceived by the priest can exist in the form of divine magic. Generally speaking, the so-called divine magic is just the experience of using holy power developed by the priest himself.
They are not even considered spells at all. Many of them just directly utilize the properties of the Holy Power itself. For example, the Holy Power treatment often used by the Lord of Glory Priest uses the positive energy characteristics of the Holy Power of the Lord of Glory.
But the general situation does not mean that everything is the same. The holy power in the form of divine magic is the holy power spell that God has "packaged" in advance. The priest can use it directly after obtaining it, and there is no need to develop it by himself.
Aibok's notes recorded two ready-made magical spells that he perceived. One is [Blue-White Flame] that most arcane priests can obtain, which can summon a ball of blue-white flame.
There is no particular practical use, it is just used by the mystery priest to show his identity.
But the other one is obviously much more useful. It is similar to the effect of [Dispel Magic], but more effective. Moreover, Aiboke's notes also mentioned that [Secret Flame Baptism Ceremony] is also obtained in the form of divine magic.
It's just that Aiboke himself has not yet been able to obtain such magical power.
Looking at all of Aibo's research, it is similar to Chateau's original research on identity cards in the Eastern world. They are more superficial and fail to touch on the essence.
But now Xia Duo looks at these research processes from the perspective of the Lord of Order, and he has indeed gained something. In other words, any research on primitive power is useful to him!
Even if the holy power cannot be determined to be the original power, as long as it has the characteristics of the original power, the process of studying it can be used as a reference for the study of the power of order.
It can be said that obtaining Ai Burke's research notes saved Xia Duo a considerable amount of time!
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Just as Sha Duo was studying Aibok's notes over and over in his mind, Niya came quietly, and he didn't react until she sat next to Sha Duo.
Niya was the first to speak: "What are you thinking about?"
"I'm thinking about studying the power of order with Eberk." Sha Duo replied casually.
"You want to study the power of order with Uncle Aibo?"
Niya was a little surprised by this answer, but she didn't delve too much into it. She just reminded, "Uncle Aberke also has his own things to do. If it's not necessary, don't bother him."
"Put it down, this time it was Aibo who asked for it."
"That's good."
Then Nia got to the point of the conversation, "I heard from Cecily that you are going to update the communication mystery lock?"
Xia Duo had already anticipated this problem. He smiled slightly, looked into Niya's eyes and said, "Well, you can design the secret lock and leave it to me to test and build it. What do you think?"
"ah?"
Although they were an old couple, Niya was still a little embarrassed when her little thoughts were seen through. The tips of her ears were almost instantly dyed with a layer of crimson. She quickly answered as if to cover up:
"I'm OK."
She originally came here with the intention of launching an attack. After all, she had already agreed to leave the communication mystery lock to her, but not long after, Xia Duo wanted to interfere again.
Although the reasons for interference were very good, Niya still felt that she had been underestimated.
It wasn't until Xia Duo said that the design of the secret lock would still be left to her, that she breathed a sigh of relief. With Xia Duo responsible for testing and construction, it would not delay the update of the secret lock.
But after agreeing, she couldn't help but worry about whether she could keep up with Xia Duo's progress.